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Social Networks As A Gateway To The Internet

That social networks do not stop growing is not new. According to that conducted by the Centre of Social Networks in Spain, back in October of 2008, only 13% of Internet users used Facebook, while for November 2009 rose to 64%. Tuenti, another highly successful network in the Iberian Peninsula during the same period grew from 12 to 33%. Similar figures are recorded in the other major social networks. Furthermore, most networks have been abandoned are MySpace and Hi5. This could be caused by natural sedimentation, similar to what has occurred with the search engines, where only a few prevail. The new trend for other interesting when considering strategies for participation in social networks is related to the search for information.

More and more users use them to find relevant data they need about events of interest to locate people, businesses or seek employment. Just open Twitter, and even before entering the account, you can see Hot new items per hour, per day or per week. So the natural conclusion is that it is necessary to address our strategies of participation in social networks thinking that they can easily become the gateway to our sites. Therefore, it is necessary to take some precautions. a Is it easy to locate your company or your brand on social networks? As a first step, it is necessary to complete the profiles.

Not all take the time necessary to complete all the fields of information. Upload a photo or logo, it is necessary to maintain a visual identity. success. a Link your accounts. It is possible, by a large number of apps, or as a function present in many places (such as Linked In), linking the different accounts, so that information is immediately updated in several places at once. a Twit using the hashtags (#). Thus, when another user performs a search for those keywords, your tweets will be easily located and listed. a Give your site the buttons on the major social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Tuenti). Invite users to follow in these networks. a Perform frequent searches in the nets of their brand, company or site, and check the results. a Customize your pages on these sites. Facebook offers many applications that can give a particular look and feel to the page. Twitter offers the alternative of putting a custom background and change the color scheme for your account to look as similar as possible to your site. This will help to quickly identify your business and your site. Consider the following question. If a user twit your brand, or perform a search on Facebook for your brand, or your site, would you be happy with what I could find? If the answer is no, then it needed further work in this direction, which will also increase “findability” (“findability” is the term in English) of your business. If you have like this post and wants to put in place, you can smoothly, provided you cite as a source to Victor Perez Acosta, is an entrepreneur and founder of Internet VPA in 1998. You can find more information and VPA are people in business. We know how you feel other business and what they want. We know you want to save money, but not at the expense of quality. We know you need a reliable partner. A company can always meet your deadlines. We work more than anyone to increase profits for your business, while reducing overall costs.